Quotes About Humility

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.